Device for securing hoops on casks, barrels, tubs, and other receptacles



I. F. C. SCHAFFNER.

DEVICE FOR SECURING HOOPS 0N CASKS, BARRELS, TUBS, AND OTHERRECEPTACLES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6.1914.

Patented Aug. 2, 1921.

- ,.,ff JFCSc/laffner IIII UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH FERNAND CLEMENT SGHAFFNER, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

DEVICE FOR SECURING HOOPS 0N CASKS, BARRELS, TUBS, .AND OTHERRECEPTACLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 2, 1921.

Application filed. June 6, 1914. Serial No. 843,513. (GRANTED UNDER THEPROVISIONS 0F THE ACT 0F MARGH 3, 1921, 41 STAT. L., 1313.)

To all whom t may concern.'

l Be it known that I, JOSEPH FERNAND CLE- MENT SCHAFFNER, a citizen ofthe French Republic, residing at 4L Rue de Lille, Paris, France, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for SecuringHoops on Casks, Barrels, Tubs, and other Receptacles, (for which I havefiled applications in England, 592, dated J an. 8, 1914;, and in France,78,285, dated Sept. 18, 1913,) of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to a device intended for securing hoops on casks,barrels, tubs, and other' receptacles and consisting substantially of ametal plate adapted to be placed under the hoops and in which incisionsand cuttings have been made so as to form tongues, the ends of which canbe folded over the hoops or rolled around into pads, so as to secure thehoops iirmly on the casks or the like.

These hoop-retaining plates have in cross-section preferably the form ofa segment of a circle so that when they are applied they do not causeany appreciable deformation of the hoops which are on the casks, barrelsor the like.

In the accompanying drawing, given by way of example,

Figure 1 shows one of the forms of construction of the hoop-retainingplate.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section thereof.

Fig. 3 is a partial transverse section of a cask, provided with ahoop-retaining"1 plate of rectangular section.

Fig. l is a similar section with a plate, the sectional form of which isthat of a segment of a circle.

Fig. 5 represents a tub furnished with hoop-retaining plates.

Fig. 6 represents a barrel with hoop-re taining plates.

The hoop-retaining7 plate according to Fig. 1 has a series oflongitudinal incisions a made in the middle of the plate and of lateraleXcisions Z2, so as to form tongues d, the ends c of which may becurved. The eXcisions Z9 are made alternately on the two edges of theplate, so that the tongues l appear likewise alternately on the twosides. The tongues Z in the upper half o f the plate moreover, run in anopposite direction to that in which those in the lower half run. Thisarrangement enables a large number of tongues Z to be formed on theplate, without its being necessary to make the plate wider, this widthbeing the same over the whole length of the plate.

In applying the plates to a tub (Fig. 5) or to a cask (Fig. 6) theplates are passed under the hoops the ends c are then folded over thelatter which are thus secured so as to be immovable. Two diametricallyopposite plates are generally sufficient.

It will be observed that for the threehoop tub shown in Fig. 5 a halfplate is suiiicient while the cask shown in Fig. 6 requires an entireplate such as is seen in Fig. l, with tongues el of the upper halfrunning in a direction opposite to that of the tongues in the lowerhalf.

The ends of the plates are folded over toward the interior of the Caskand are fixen to the inner edges of the staves by means of a nail or ascrew, which completely prevents the plates from slipping sidewise.

It is easy to see that the hoops can be tightened or loosened withouthowever being able to move of themselves.

The cross-sectional form of the plates is that of a segment of a circle,as shown in Fig. 2.

In consequence of this, the plate placed under the hoops does not causeany appreciable deformation of the latter, as will be seen from Fig. 4,while if the section were square shape as in Fig. 3, the hoops might bedeformed. 4

What I claim and desire to secure by Iletters Patent is A device forsecuring hoops on casks and the like, comprising a plate with simpleincisions made along the central longitudinal line, and excisions whichunite the incisions with the edges of the plate so as to form tonguesalternately on the two sides of the plate.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature, in presence of twowitnesses.

JOSEPH FERNAND CLEMENT SCHAFFNER.

Titnessesz I-IANsoN C. Coxn, CHABLns FABER.

